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(Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Paul Newman and Eric Nash/NASA/Ozone Watch)
A cold winter is spurring the hole, which will persist through November at least.It is expected this year's hole will close no earlier than late November.
The U.S. space agency and SpaceX have pushed the launch of the Crew-3 mission from Saturday (Nov. 6) to Monday (Nov. 8) at the earliest, because of anticipated bad weather.
"It costs like $28 million or something like that. And I'm doing good, Jimmy - I'm doing good - but I ain't paying $28 million," actor Tom Hanks told Jimmy Kimmel this week.
Blue Origin has lost the lawsuit it filed over the awarding of a lucrative NASA moon lander contract, freeing SpaceX up to resume its work on the project.
The agency announced Monday (Nov. 1) that it is adding several new leadership positions and merging two offices into a new one. The shakeup is taking place about six months since NASA administrator Bill Nelson was sworn into office Nov. 3.
The advanced model, dubbed Digital Twin Earth, is being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and its partners based on data and images from Earth-observation satellites and sensors on the ground.
NASA has lofted countless spacecraft into the solar system, but a mission launching in late November will attempt a unique feat: to slam into a tiny asteroid and slightly speed up its orbit.
The spacesuit for NASA's Artemis program will fit a wider range of body sizes, be highly mobile and include more modern materials compared with the Apollo era.
The annual Taurid meteor shower from the Comet Encke shows up like clockwork every year between mid-October and mid-November, but Nov. 5 through Nov. 12 will be the best time to look for meteors.
